I was a bad kid, getting into a lot of wild stuff.
Ideas control the world.
Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.
I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.
Our idea of fun wasn't going to Disney World. It was, you want to play basketball, go outside, and make a goal. You want to play baseball? Take the old broom, take the handle off, take a tennis ball that we found somewhere, and go play baseball. We were forced to create things.
I understand Pat Mahomes is off to a good start. I'm not ready to crown him four games into his career, but he's definitely playing well.
Momma told me, 'I'm going to town. Don't touch the trash in the backyard,' because we used to burn our trash. So I'm going to do mama a favor. I light the trash and go back inside to watch Ohio State and LSU play. And something said, 'You know what, at halftime, go check on it.' And fire is about 8 feet from the back door.
Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
Suicide is not a remedy.
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.
WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks.
Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light
9Some things have to be believed to be seen.
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader.
Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.
I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
Afghan people are just so tired of war.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
